For people with hundreds of finds, you've always had to search multiple pages to find a specific listing.

Which was annoying but at least if I knew the name of the box started with the letter "R" I could pretty quickly narrow down where that was in my logbook. Now, if I don't know what year I found it (who does??), then I have to go to each year, hunting for the Rs and see if it's there. That is a lot more work.

I mean I guess I could create my own spreadsheet and enter several thousand boxes so that I could look up a box I found, but I think I'd rather stab my eyeballs with a hot needle.

For example, just the other day I was asked if I had ever found that third Samhain box. So I hopped on AQ to look under my finds for "S". With the 500 limit, I don't see any "S" boxes, so now I need to search by year. I have no idea what years. It was within the past ten years. So I need to click every year and hunt through the each in alphabetical order?? Or, of course I should be doing a location search! Except off the top of my head I don't know the name of the location. Also, I don't remember -- was that an AQ box or something on LbNA? I think it was LbNA. So what did I do? I went over to LbNA and did a box search. First it came with zero results. I went back to the email and check the spelling. I was off by one letter. Redid the search with the exact spelling. Found the box.

In the past I just went to my AQ logbook and quickly clicked to the letter "S" boxes. The new way is a lot less functional. Also, I liked seeing the numbers on the boxes. It was better the way it was before.

My counts are low...so maybe its diffrent if you have 1000 of finds or plants??? Why not just use the advanced search to find all your plants or finds or attempts? Say I admire a particular boxers style of clue writing... I might go to advanced search and leave every field blank except "hide owner" or "planter" and enter the relevant trail name. If they have thousands of plants I could use the edit search feature to exclude retired boxes, or old last finds, or sort the boxes by location, ect.Same for getting an alphabetical list of ones own extensive finds. Simply enter your trailname into the "finder" field and leave everything else blank. Then edit the search to add another layer of detail if you have it, or sort the list by plant date or find date or whatever.I can't speak to LTC 's as I haven't done any but wouldn't they work about the same?Why search a logbook by scrolling threw multiple pages when the search functions allow for so many diffrent ways to sort boxes?

I get it--you want to be able to search your logbook and not actually "run" a real search. I'm sorry you consider searches on AQ a hassle. How can I make the search page easier for you use? It really is the best way to search for boxes.

The logbook is just... a logbook. Literally, a list of boxes. The first version of it didn't even let you sort them alphabetically or by owner or anything. Those were improvements I added later based on suggestions, but it's just a list of boxes. That's all it's ever been. Searches are for the search page.

Maybe I'm just missing something, but I can't get your example search to work for me. I go to advanced search and put a single letter in the box name field, and I only get boxes with that single letter alone in their name. I don't get a list of "begins with" or "includes".

Maybe I'm just missing something, but I can't get your example search to work for me. I go to advanced search and put a single letter in the box name field, and I only get boxes with that single letter alone in their name. I don't get a list of "begins with" or "includes".